Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu block API

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 18/07/2012 15:58, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
> > How is error reporting dealt with
> 
> These APIs just return errno values.

Which has led to somewhat unhelpful error reporting in the past. If we're
designing a library API it'd be nice to improve on this.

> 
> > , and what is the intent around
> > thread safety of the APIs ?  I'd like to see a fully thread safe
> > API - multiple threads can use the same 'BlockDriverState *'
> > concurrently, and thread-local error reporting.
> 
> This is a bit difficult to provide, since the QEMU block layer itself is
> not thread-safe.

Yep, I'd expect that this is something we'd need to fix when turning the
code into a library.  NB, I don't mean to say QEMU should protect against
an app doing stupid things like letting 2 threads write to the same area
of the file at once. That's upto the application. I simply mean that the
BlockDriverState shouldn't corrupt itself if 2 separate APIs are called
concurrently on the same instance.

> Another missing feature is passwords.

Oh yes.

Daniel
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